New Delhi, Apr 24 : Filing of nominations for the fifth and last phase of Lok Sabha elections comes to an end on Friday.
Scrutiny will be held on Saturday and polling will be held for 86 seats on May 13.
In this phase, polling will be held for two seats in Jammu and Kashmir, nine seats in Punjab, four seats in Himachal Pradesh, eleven in West Bengal, five in Uttarakhand, 39 in Tamilnadu, 14 in UP and one each in Puducherry and Chandigarh.
New Delhi - Authorities in India-administered Kashmir placed the region's main separatist leaders under house arrest Friday to prevent them from addressing rallies after they issued a call to boycott Indian elections, a news report said.
Polling has been held in the two rounds in the troubled region since April 16. Three more rounds remain until the parliamentary elections conclude on May 13.
New Delhi, Apr 24 : Liv Tyler is romancing her personal trainer, it has emerged.
The ''Lord of the Rings'' star was snapped hugging and kissing David Hirsch after an intimate lunch in Westwood, New Jersey on April 22.
Apparently, the pair couldn''t keep their hands off each other as they walked to his car, stopping in the parking lot several times to kiss and cuddle.
New Delhi - Suspected Maoist rebels killed seven people, including a polling official and two political workers, in separate attacks in eastern India taking the death toll in the latest election-related violence to nine, news reports said Friday.
Maoist militants detonated a landmine that blew up a jeep carrying polling officials in the central Muzaffarpur district of Bihar state Thursday night, killing four policemen and an election official, the NDTV network reported.
New Delhi, Apr 24 : Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan will leave for Colombo today to review the situation in the island nation.
Narayanan and Menon are expected to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa and will convey India''s concerns to the Sri Lankan Government.
The decision was announced by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee after a special meeting convened by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday night.
New Delhi, Apr 24 : Filing of nominations for the fifth and last phase of Lok Sabha elections comes to an end on Friday.
New Delhi - Authorities in India-administered Kashmir placed the region's main separatist leaders under house arrest Friday to prevent them from addressing rallies after they issued a call to boycott Indian elections, a news report said.
New Delhi, Apr 24 : Liv Tyler is romancing her personal trainer, it has emerged.
New Delhi - Suspected Maoist rebels killed seven people, including a polling official and two political workers, in separate attacks in eastern India taking the death toll in the latest election-related violence to nine, news reports said Friday.
New Delhi, Apr 24 : Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan will leave for Colombo today to review the situation in the island nation.
